Programmatically focus on a form in a webview (WKWebView)

Question

It\'s possible with UIWebView with following:

[webView setKeyboardDisplayRequiresUserAction:NO]
Call some JS function

How can you do the sa

Answer 1

The accepted answer no longer works in iOS 11.3, since WebKit method signature has changed. Here is a workaround (in Obj-C):

(UPDATE: Method signature has changed a few more times in iOS 12.2 and iOS 13, code below has been updated to reflect these changes)

#import 

@implementation WebViewInjection

+ (void)allowDisplayingKeyboardWithoutUserAction {
    Class class = NSClassFromString(@"WKContentView");
    NSOperatingSystemVersion iOS_11_3_0 = (NSOperatingSystemVersion){11, 3, 0};
    NSOperatingSystemVersion iOS_12_2_0 = (NSOperatingSystemVersion){12, 2, 0};
    NSOperatingSystemVersion iOS_13_0_0 = (NSOperatingSystemVersion){13, 0, 0};
    if ([[NSProcessInfo processInfo] isOperatingSystemAtLeastVersion: iOS_13_0_0]) {
        SEL selector = sel_getUid("_elementDidFocus:userIsInteracting:blurPreviousNode:activityStateChanges:userObject:");
        Method method = class_getInstanceMethod(class, selector);
        IMP original = method_getImplementation(method);
        IMP override = imp_implementationWithBlock(^void(id me, void* arg0, BOOL arg1, BOOL arg2, BOOL arg3, id arg4) {
        ((void (*)(id, SEL, void*, BOOL, BOOL, BOOL, id))original)(me, selector, arg0, TRUE, arg2, arg3, arg4);
        });
        method_setImplementation(method, override);
    }
   else if ([[NSProcessInfo processInfo] isOperatingSystemAtLeastVersion: iOS_12_2_0]) {
        SEL selector = sel_getUid("_elementDidFocus:userIsInteracting:blurPreviousNode:changingActivityState:userObject:");
        Method method = class_getInstanceMethod(class, selector);
        IMP original = method_getImplementation(method);
        IMP override = imp_implementationWithBlock(^void(id me, void* arg0, BOOL arg1, BOOL arg2, BOOL arg3, id arg4) {
        ((void (*)(id, SEL, void*, BOOL, BOOL, BOOL, id))original)(me, selector, arg0, TRUE, arg2, arg3, arg4);
        });
        method_setImplementation(method, override);
    }
    else if ([[NSProcessInfo processInfo] isOperatingSystemAtLeastVersion: iOS_11_3_0]) {
        SEL selector = sel_getUid("_startAssistingNode:userIsInteracting:blurPreviousNode:changingActivityState:userObject:");
        Method method = class_getInstanceMethod(class, selector);
        IMP original = method_getImplementation(method);
        IMP override = imp_implementationWithBlock(^void(id me, void* arg0, BOOL arg1, BOOL arg2, BOOL arg3, id arg4) {
            ((void (*)(id, SEL, void*, BOOL, BOOL, BOOL, id))original)(me, selector, arg0, TRUE, arg2, arg3, arg4);
        });
        method_setImplementation(method, override);
    } else {
        SEL selector = sel_getUid("_startAssistingNode:userIsInteracting:blurPreviousNode:userObject:");
        Method method = class_getInstanceMethod(class, selector);
        IMP original = method_getImplementation(method);
        IMP override = imp_implementationWithBlock(^void(id me, void* arg0, BOOL arg1, BOOL arg2, id arg3) {
            ((void (*)(id, SEL, void*, BOOL, BOOL, id))original)(me, selector, arg0, TRUE, arg2, arg3);
        });
        method_setImplementation(method, override);
    }
}

@end